Project GRACE
Mission
Improve health in Nash and Edgecombe counties with community-based projects designed to strengthen the capacity of the communities themselves to assess and address their own unique health-related problems.
Partner Organizations
- Better Days Ahead
- NEW Sources
- Donnie R. Wilkes Ministries
- Second Chance Recovery
- St. Paul United Methodist Church
- Down East Partnership
- Edgecombe County Public Schools
- Elks Lodge #1038
- St. James Missionary Baptist Church
- Boys and Girls Club of Nash/Edgecombe Counties
- UNC Nash Hospital
- Carolina Family Health Center
- Project Momentum Inc. (PMI)
- James McFarlin Community Development, Inc. (JMCD)
- Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)
- Helping Hands
- Word Tabernacle
- Community Enrichment Organization
- Visions, Inc.
- Little Bethlehem Apostolic Faith Church, Inc.
- Vidant-Edgecombe Hospital
- Nash County Health Department
- Edgecombe County Health Department
- Mt. Zion First Baptist Church
- The Wright Center
- More than a Meal
- Rocky Mount Police Department
- UNC Center for Health Equity Research
Funding
NIH – NIHMD
9/30/2005 – 2/28/2014
Learn more about Project GRACE funding.
Publications
- Corbie-Smith G, Adimora AA, Youmans S, Muhammad M, Blumenthal C, Ellison A, Akers A, Council B, Thigpen Y, Wynn M, Llyod SW. Project GRACE: A Staged Approach to Development of a Community—Academic Partnership to Address HIV in Rural African American Communities. Health Promot Pract. 2010;12(2):293-302. doi:10.1177/1524839909348766.
- Corbie-Smith G, Akers A, Blumenthal C, Council B, Wynn M, Muhammad M, Stith D. Intervention Mapping as a Participatory Approach to Developing an HIV Prevention Intervention in Rural African American Communities. AIDS Educ Prev. 2010;22(3):184-202. doi:10.1521/aeap.2010.22.3.184
- Llyod SW, Ferguson YO, Corbie-Smith G, Ellison A, Blumenthal C, Council BJ, Youmans S, Muhammad MR, Wynn M, Adimora A, Akers A. The role of public schools in HIV prevention: Perspectives for African Americans in the rural south. AIDS Educ Prev. 2012;24(1):41-53. doi:10.1521/aeap.2012.24.1.41.
News
Amelia H. UNC Chapel Hill staff visits city sites. Rocky Mount Telegram. October 17, 2019.